A state fiscal watchdog group, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority had said the project would cost individual taxpayers $60,
compared with Mangano’s estimate of $14.The authority also stated that the project would have cost $800 million altogether, with interest included. Nassau County currently faces facing a $100 million budget deficit for 2011 and
some of the country’s highest property taxes, the New York Post reported.

The vote means that when their lease expires in 2015, the Islanders, Long Island’s only professional sports franchise, would be likely to leave Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum, perhaps for the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the Post said. [AP via ENR] and[Post]